Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 497cf0f846eb37cd…

MALICIOUS

PDF

33.2 KB Created: 2020-08-06 20:53:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 60077e76063251ce188a7571c4f0659e SHA-1: a777f36ea5a18af5953f297f7054dbc5bef51029 SHA-256: 497cf0f846eb37cd7804ae24c44d554e72d3feb8c3114dcd624cef52640e1af6
234 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1200 Hardware Add-in T1059.001 PowerShell

The PDF contains a heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, specifically pointing to 'https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=dominoes+quick+starter+ali+baba+and+the+forty+thieves+pdf'. Additionally, it exhibits characteristics of a PDF link farm, with numerous embedded links, many hosted on cdn.shopify.com. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the same malicious URL and appears to be a lure for users to click on it, likely leading to further malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 6

  • PDF links to known malicious redirector infrastructure critical PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK
    PDF contains a clickable URI to redirector infrastructure used by a known malicious PDF SEO/adware delivery campaign. These documents typically rely on user interaction and redirect chains rather than a PDF parser vulnerability.
  • Small PDF contains mass external PDF link farm critical PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM
    Small PDF contains many clickable external PDF links, mostly clustered on one host. This matches generated SEO/link-farm PDF carriers used to route users into malicious or unwanted-software delivery chains, rather than a normal document citation pattern.
  • PDF link to algorithmically-generated URL high PDF_RANDOM_URL_LINK
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) link whose host looks algorithmically generated (pronounceable-random labels) and whose path/query carries a long high-entropy token. This is the randomized-redirector pattern of malspam phishing lures — the visible document is only a prompt — not a PDF parser vulnerability.
  • Image lure linking to an SEO redirector (free-download phishing) high PDF_SEO_UTM_REDIRECTOR_LINK
    PDF embeds an image with little or no body text and a clickable link to a multi-word utm_term / FeedBurner-proxied SEO redirector — the 'free ebook / solution-manual / document download' phishing family that ranks for natural-language search queries and routes the user into a payload/redirect chain. The PDF carries no exploit; the risk is the linked destination. Flagged structurally (image lure + SEO redirector) so it does not depend on a ClamAV/ML signature, and regardless of how many filler text pages the lure carries.
  • Object number defined twice with different bodies info PDF_DUPLICATE_OBJ_BODY_INCREMENTAL
    The same indirect object (N G) is defined more than once with different body bytes. First-wins and last-wins readers will resolve different content, which is a parser-confusion shape used by targeted PDFs. Body-only differences are common in benign incremental updates, so severity is raised only when the duplicate carries active content.
  • Embedded URL info EMBEDDED_URL
    One or more URLs were extracted from the document. The URL itself is not a detection — see the per-URL labels for which channel (macro, JS, link annotation, document body, ...) reached each URL.
    URL https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=dominoes+quick+starter+ali+baba+and+the+forty+thieves+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.vegasholidaycondos.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775032/4677834.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.merakibeeswaxwraps.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739027/420664d95b.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.scrimsmustangclassicyamahadtrestoration.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130740249/4780272.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/4919/5419/files/english_to_japanese_dictionary_free_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/fokukivovasogu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3583/6068/files/rirefagazovovumoti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/51025654711.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9925/0072/files/bebunuru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9570/3204/files/zapunox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6564/7012/files/oh_shit_git.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4852/5206/files/pdftk_command_line_linux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3144/5149/files/how_does_an_anion_of_nitrogen_form.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/4555/2290/files/37554586480.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#In PDF document text
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/In PDF document text
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text
🗂 Part of campaign: madaassoc.org 5 samples

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000426a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x426A 5884 bytes
SHA-256: abda91b3c6c2f9d336e13a024bd25aabb8295b75e287e63aeb81772e96f04efd
font_01_sfnt_off0000565c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x565C 9884 bytes
SHA-256: cdf58eb66a20f4f7970922bc51e874ccb38b699c4229e4628d309dc472c4d39a